Supercomputing specialist SGI has become Microsoft's latest partner, signing up to support a version of Windows that can farm out computing jobs to a cluster of lower-end servers.
A US lab is buying a US$6 million, 2,048-processor Linux supercomputer to run its nuclear weapons simulation software, an effort that will test the limits of these less expensive megamachines.
IBM will soon give supercomputing aficionados a glimpse of an Opteron chip-based system that is geared for high-performance tasks.
Microsoft is showing some early signs of success with a version of Windows geared for a technical computing market that Linux dominates today.
Local poultry producer Bartter Enterprises is evaluating the future of around 70 Microsoft Windows servers, in the context of a recent migration of other systems to Red Hat Linux.
Vulnerabilities have been found in HP's high-end Unix operating system that could allow attackers to take over a server or knock it offline.
The move to Itanium has meant a rocky road for Hewlett-Packard's high-end server group. But the man leading the company's transition to the Intel chip believes the worst potholes are in the rear-view mirror.
Hewlett-Packard says it will offer the popular OpenVMS operating system on its new Itanium-based servers.
Advisor John Morris believes the forthcoming HP-Compaq merger heralds substantial benefits for both company's customers if things are handled right.
The eServer Cluster 1350 is the first first prepackaged Linux-based blade cluster from IBM.
Intel has come out with a Pentium 4 running at 3.2GHz and separately has plans to discuss a new version of its upcoming Madison chip specially enhanced for dual-processor servers and workstations.
The software giant puts finishing touches on Windows Server 2003 in an effort to show big businesses that the high-end operating system is industrial strength.
German Linux seller SuSE has unveiled a version of the open-source operating system tailored for Intel's Itanium chip.
The software that sits between the operating system and a PC's hardware hasn't changed much in decades. Now, Phoenix Technologies wants to introduce greater security, usability and copy protection.
RMIT Test Lab finally got its hands on some of the most powerful business PCs on the market. So it is with an eagerness bordering on unadulterated glee that Matt Tett puts these racehorses through their paces.
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